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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Near.ightednes. In the Schools.

DR.. Whittier, of Brookline. who has
examined the eyes of members of the
upper classes in the high school of that
town. states that over so per- cent. of the
pupils have some affection of the eye.
T~hirty-four per cent. of those examined
were troubled with myopy, 10 per cent.
with hyperopia, and 9 per cent. with
various other eye troubles. "Of these IA
per cent. were astigmatic to some ex.
tent" says the doctor. II propose to
examine the same pupils eyes one year
from now, to see what changes have
taken place, especially in the myopic
eyes. So far, I find that nearsightedness
seems to increase in proportion as our
school system becomes more complex,
and pupils are obliged to apply them
selves more closely to their work. A
larger per cent. of myopic eyes are found
in city than in village or country schools"
Boston Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Who're Are the Old sinperss

What becomes of the old singers is a
question as hard to answer as that con
corning the fate of the ~proverbial pins. In
Italy they usually retire to their native
villages and end their days in ~obscurity
and peace. In France and Germany,
until quite incapacitated for active duty,
they generally set up as singing teachers,
and, thanks mainly to their celebrity.
earn handsome incomes from ambitious
lads and lasses. Duprez, who was the
original William Tell, gives lessons in
Paris, and so do Marie Sass, the original
Selika in "L'Africaine," Dele Sedie, the
great baritone, Carlotta Patti, and a host
of lesser lights of days bygone. The
value of their instruction from a musical
standpoint may be doubted. but that of
the suggestions they can give to gifted
but unfiedged aspirants to distinction on
the stage or concert platform can hardly
be overestimated. New York Sun.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04

The Toulon fleet maneuvers, will be Of
interest to other countries as well as
France. because they will furnish one
more competitive trial between torpedo
boats and line of battle ships. This RI
valry has of late become as interesting
and important as were the old battles be-
tween guns and armor, continued through
so many years, with varying success, at
Shoeburyness, Meppen, Spezia, Gavre,
Ochta, Amager, Bucharest, Copenhagen,
and elsewhere. There is, however, one
great point of difference to be noted.
While in the contest of ordinance against
plated targets all the mechanical elements
are well known, and the results can be
set forth with precision, in sham conflicts
of torpedo boats against harbor obstruc-
tons or war vessels, a in last years ma.
neuvers at Bantry Bay, Toulon, and
Grossa. it is largely a matter of opinion
as to whether the attack or defense is
really the stronger, since the real effects
Of battle cannot be simulated.-Chicag
Tribune.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Odds aud Euds.

Lamar is said to be willing to take
the judgeship.
charlie Ross is said to be In q Con-
necticut prison.
Decrease in the public debt for May
is estimated at $40. 900 900.
Some small houses were overthrow
by the City of Mexico earthquake.
Frank Haddock's life of his father is
entitled "The Hero and the Martyr"
Nina Van Zandt and Mrs. Parsons
daily visit the anarchists In Chicago
jail.
Battle between the Choctaws and
half.breeds is imminent in Indian
Territory.
Secretary Bayard has protested
against England exporting her pau.
pers to this country.
The new treasury vault will be ::our
and one-half feet thick and hold l00,.
900. 900 silver dollars.
Dispatches from Madrid tell OF
claims which the United States is
pressing upont the Spanish government
The London Times says: "Clan-na.
Gael Is the soul of the National Lea.
que. While the latter exists on fine
speeches, ETC., the former manages the
real business.
President Williams, of the Chemical
bank of New York. says that their
claim Is not outlawed and that Kissane
will have to make restitution OF
some 81, 900.
The Pennsylvania supreme court de.
cides that mortgages owned by cor
porations are exempt from certain
state taxes. The decision derives
the state OF about $500, 900 yearly reve'
nue..
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Two Tests Of Death.

There are many persons haunted with
the fear oi being buried alivs. and many
believe that such things do d4ekn happen.
A celebrated English NJ. ID. gives the fol-
lowing test: Have the room in which
the corpse lies perfectly dark; have a
bright light brought and taking the hand
of the corpse hold it near the light and
look through il. IL the hand has the
least pink look like blood there is surely
life, but il the hand has the look of CLAW
or grayish look and you cannot see
through il death has taken place. An
other test is to inject a drop Of ammonia
beneath the skin, II death has taken
place 1t will have no effect, but IL there is
life q small red spot will appear at the
place of injection. Surely these tests are
worth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Constitu-
ton.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Danger In Change.

It is doubtless better that boys should
be engaged in practising the long jump
or the high jump than in blackening each
others eyes; and that pugilism has in q
great measure been superseded by gym
nastics in our principal seats Of education
is matter for congratulation. But that is
a totally different thing from banishing
football, cricket or hare and hounds from
school, because sometimes a boy gets a
leg or arm broken in a scurry. is occa-
sionally stunned by a cricket ball, or
makes himself III by overexertion across
country. Nothing venture, nothing have.
II we care for the coolness and the hardi-
hood which we flatter ourselves are M
ticual characteristics, we must not shrink
from the training by which those quail
ties are developed.-Iondon Standard.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
tn. I.v.rd..s, Of had Blood.

The laity believe, a. q rule, that cutan-
sous diseases result from dad blood"
the impurities Of which find exit through
the skin, and in 30 doing take the form
of an eruption. Consequently, Il is HARM
full to remove them. ! have had, says q
specialist, patients express themselves as
very solicitous about the sudden cure of q
disease of the skin; the consequence, in
their opinion, might be disastrous by the
''driying in" of q disease that might
attack an internal organ. Nothing could
be more absurd, for it Is absolutely i'm
possible in this sense to either ''drive in"
or ''drive OUT a skin disease. The blood
has little to do with skin diseases. There
are diseases as peculiar TO this organ as
to any other, entirely localized, depend
ing upon changes in the tissues them
selves. Others are caused by parasites;
still others by nervous disturbances. It
is evident that the much lauded ''blood
purifiers" for cutaneous diseases are, to
say the least, useless. Medical Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
OIL
FOR POULTRY AND SWINE.

Mr.. ]. NJ, Mccain. Bridgeport, ". Va,
the first TO discover the virtues of st. Jacobs
Oil for chicken cholera, says "A bread
pill. saturated with St. Jacobs OH, was
forced down the throat Of the fowl. and
within half an hour IL was well as ever"
"Mixed with dough" he says, "and fed 10
turkeys, chickens and other poultry suffer
ing nom this hitherto incurable disease,
all that are able 10 swallow will be restored
70 perfect health and II the saturated pills
are forced down the threats Of those that
cannot swallow. they will flap their wings
and crow In your face"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
WTIATEO BLOOD
Scrufl0l Inherited and CONTAGIOUS
Hlnos Cured BY CUdcUra.

THOROUGH the medium Of one Of your books re-
Apollo, Pa. I became acqu ainted with your Cur.
cuRA REMEDIES, and take this opportunity 70 tes
tify 70 you tho their use has permanently cured
me Of one Of the wont essss ofblood poisoning. in
connection with ervsipelss, that 1 have ever seen,
and this after having been pronounced incurable
by some OF the best physicians In our country. i
take great pleasure In forwarding this testimonial,
unsolicited as It Is BY you, In order that ~othentuf
fering from similar maladies may be encouraged
10 give your CUTIcURA REMEDIEs . trial,
p. s. WHITLIN0ER, LeschbarR, Pa.
Rsference:FRASK I, wRAY, Druggist, Apollo, Pa
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04

fore. VI what use to him would be
his full barns and bins, ifhs could find
no market for all his superfiuity? The
The farmers Of the United States are
a much aud ~ directly interested In
building up manufactures as any class
OF our population and II does not take
q high order Of intelligence to see it,
Helena Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04

The Burlington and Missouri road
have place bn sale in Kansas and
Nebraska l,OOO.mile tickets at SIS
each. The tickets are limited to one
year each from date. and the Burling.
ton is the first road to resume the sale
If mileage tickets west o fthe Missouri.
1t Is expected that other roads will
follow In a short time.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
sCROFULOUs ULCERS

James z. Richardson, Custom House, Nov Or
leans. on oath says: ''In 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers
broke out on my body until I was q mass Of cor
uption. Everything known to the medical faculty
was tried in vain. ] became q mere wreck. Al
times could not lin my hands to my head, could
not turn In bed; was in constant pain, and looked
upon life az Q curse. No relief or cure in ten years.
In 1880 / heard Of the 0uTIcuRA REMRDIEs. used
them, and was perfectly cured"
sworn to before U. Soon. J. d. CRAWFORD
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04

S~No the Children. They are es.
ONSC pecially liable to sudden
Colds, Coughs, Group. Whooping Cough.
etc. We guarantee Acker's English
Remedy Q positive cure. It saves
hours of anxious watching. Sold by
John Wright. Druggist.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Sherih's Sale.

Sheriff's Sale.
James II. Tolfree and 7, an. n,.,r,., cour,
Nancy J. Tolfree, a, ,ha Fanrth iuS,ciai
'' District Of the Territory
o.. - Of Montana, within and
"eo'se I.sssnSs for the County OF Custer
ID Y virtue Of an order Of sale issued out Of the
Id District Court Of the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict Of the Territory Of Montana within and for
the Couuy Of Custer in the above entitled cause. /
will. on the 10Th day OF June, 1887, at the front
door Of the court house In Miles City, NJ. T., at 2
scribed real estate, TO wit; Lot No. seventeen
IN. In block No. thirty-two (S2l, in said Miles
City, according to the survey and plat OF the town
Of Miles City fled for record BY the Northern Pa
Of the Improvements and buildings situate thereon.
THOS. II. IRVINE. Sheriff.
Dated Miles City, N. T., May 20, 1887
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
ONE OF THE WORST CANES.

We have been selling your CurIcuRA REMEDIES
for years. and have the first complaint to receive
from q purchaser. One Of the worst cases OF Serof-
ula / ever saw was cured by the use Of five bottles
Of CUTIcuRA REsoLvENT, CUTIcURA and CUTlccRA
SOAP. The soap takes the cake. here rs q medi-
cal soap.
TAYLOR & TAYLOR. Druggists,
Frankfort, Kan.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Chicken Cholera.

Terre Haute, Champaign Co, Ohio.
received about ten days ago five very
fine Polish chickens. A few days ago 1
noticed that two Of them had something
like the roup. and their threats seemed 10
be nearly stopped up and made wheeling
sound at each respiration. One Of them
was not able TO walk, or even stand on its
feet took a small piece Of bread, say
about half an inch square, and saturated
IL with -. Jacobs OIL. and fed il 10 them,
once in the morning and again in the eve.
ming. The next morning when ! went out
70 look at them ] could not tell which OF
the five chickens had been sick.
'CHAS. +. POWELL, p. NJ.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04

NJ NIGHT saiT.y: h ssss
Soother at hand. 1t Is the only safe
medicine yet made that will remove all
infantile disorders. 1t contains no Opium
or M"rphiae, but gives the child natural
'"e Jrym pain. Price rs cents. Sold by
John Wright, Druggist.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
scROFtLous INHERITED.

And Contagious Humor, with Loss OF Hair, and
Eruption OF Skin, are positively cured by CurIcuRA
and CUTicURt REsoLvE,T internally, when all
other medicines tail. Send for Pamphlet.
CUTIcURA REMEDIES are sold everywhere. Price
CUTIcuRA, the Great Skin Cure. Scots: CuTIcuRA
SOAP, an exquisite Beautifer, 25cts.i CuTIcuRA
REsoLyENr, The New Blood Purifier. 500. PoT-
TER Org n CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
DlMPLEs, Blsckheads. Skin Blemisnes. and
] stNsBaby Humors, use CUncURA SOAR.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
8. GORDON,
W.. d. KNIGHT.

10 slEs agsiast rzs YsLLowsroHR JOURNAL,
ouaksostsd b. any o. ina employees q said paper OF.
skAsu. yin b recognized unlsss accompanies ~ q
written order sisnsd b. The Publisher or business
UnnAges.
fhs editor Of rHE YsLLowssoNR JOURNAL 10 NOT
10 e~ouapoudsnt.
ustiss 10 hereby given 10 an concerned that TIL
YnIovsfoNR JOURNAL holds the contract from
tks eovsrnor Of Montana, 10 DO all printing and
aAvsrtising, Of whatsoever nature ehargeable 70 Gus
~ seunsy and 10 also ths dssisnatsd and onst
papsr In tastsr county In which s~srviess BY pub
t6skisn can b legally usds. Legal notices pub
hishsd In other papers Of Custer county, are sotd
cad worthless, n hes been decided BY the courts o.
Montana
All lsttsrs and Communication containing mat
Ter intended for publication In this paper. should
- sddrsssi 70 THE YKLLovsroNk JOURNAL
end the name Of the writer must be given 10 insur'
nktsption.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04

81. Jacobs OIL Is an absolute cure for all
bodily pains for which an external remedy
may be applied. Ii is sold by Druggists
aud Dealers throughout the world. Price
finy cent per bottle. The Charles A, Vo-
geler Co.. Baltimore. Nd.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-04
Chicken Cholera.

terrain Church, C~larksburg, W. Va, says.
T" saturated a piece Of bread size of my
thumb with 81. Jacobs Oil, and forced Il
down the throat Chickens were IN the
last stage. ] mixed IL with meal, and gave
them nothing else. They ate. In q weeks
time all were well"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06
Out on the Plains.

Room! Room to turn round in, to breathe and
be free
And grow to be giant-to sail as at sea
With the speed of the wind on steed with
his name
To the wind-without pathway or route or q
reini
Rooms Room to be free where the white-bor
dered sea
Blows a kiss to a brother as boundless as he;
And to east and TO west, to the north and the
sun,
Blue skies and brown grasses are welded as
one,
And the buffalo come like cloud on the
plain
Pouring on like the tide of a storm-driven
main:
And the lodge of the hunter to friend or to
Offers rest, and unquestioned you come or
you go!
My plains of AmericaI Seas of wild landl
From a land in the seas with a raiment of
foam,
That has reached to stranger the welcome
of home,
turn to you. lean to you, lift you my handl
joaquin Miller,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06
The Home of the AutOcrat.

The doctors study in the house in
Beacon street looks out over the Charles
River, and it is a question whether the
view from the windows is more beau
tiful at night when the electric lights
on the bridge cast their reflections on
the water like javelins of glittering
silver, or in the day, when the gray
stream flowing to the sea, and the
spires and towers of Cambridge, with
the green hills of Arlington and Bel
mont beyond, are visible. 1t is at all
times view of which Boston people
are very proud; and, aside from its
beauty, it has the added interest to the
doctor of encompassing nearly all the
scenes of his youth, and of his man.
hood, too.
He was born at Cambridge, and
went to school at Cambridgeport, and
both of those places are in sight from
his window; all his past is unfolded
there, and when he turns from the
bool. or manuscript on his desk, near
which hangs the portrait of his re-
nowned ancestress, Dorothy O., =
he can see the path his feet have fol-
lowed SAGE the beginning of his life
He can see himself at various ages:
the urchin struggling to school,
through fields which are green only
in the memory now; the Harvard stu
dent; and then. iii one person, the
college professor and famous author.
No doubt be finds it hard to believe
that the urchin was not another fell
low altogether, instead of the self
same sapling that he himself once was;
but, though the identity is confusing,
he can remember the boy well, and all
his queer fancies, amusements, and
chums.-"7he B0y]s0Od Of Oltaler Ven
dell Holmes, in st. Nicholas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06
TO be continued.)

Tricky Merchant Tell me what I'm
thinking about and I'll give you $50.
d--eader-You're thinking that you
will soon fail and that your creditors
won't get cent.
Tricky Merchant (chuckling) Here are
your $50.
Mind-reader--I knew I'd get it right.
Tricky Merchant-Well, you didn t.
nd-reader-Didn't? Then why did
you pay me?
Tricky observation-disclosures you gave
me good idea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06
Knew All About Them.

All old gentleman, speaking to a
young lady and commenting upon her
freshness and good looks, remarked:
.Ah, my dear, may you long retain
them. Yours is happy period of life
You know nothing yet of the jealous
les, the heartburnings, the conten-
tons, the rivalries that beset the path
way of existence"
Don't l, thought" she interrupted.
81 want you to understand that l be-
long to church choir. "-Neao YORK.
Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06

Hereditary govt is a most unjust
disease. The father had all the fun
and the son catches mos. cf the pain
Near Orleans Picau1.f.e
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06

i JrleQ 10 explain 10 Hill budG the cause
of all the hub-bub was q very remarkable
and interesting echo, but he would not be-
lieve it.
'.Ah." he said 81 know al echo when /
hear one. There was one lived opposite
my kraal in Zululand and the Intombis
(maldens) used to talk with it. But if
what we hear is a fuli-grown echo, mine
at home can only have been a baby. No,
no-they are devils up there. But don't
think much of them, though" he added,
taking pinch Of snuff. ''They can copy
what one says, but they don't seem to be
able to talk on their own account, and they
dare not show their faces" and he relapsed
into silence and apparently paid no fur
Their attention to such contemplate fiends.
After this we found it necessary to keep
our conversation down to a whisper-for it
was really unbearable to have every word
one uttered tossed to and fro like tennis
ball, as precipice called to precipice. But
even our whispers ran up the rocks in mys-
terious murmurs till at last they died away
in long drawn signs of sound. Echoes are
delightful and romantic things, but we had
more than enough of them in that dreadful
gulf.
AS soon as we had settled ourselves a
little on the ground stones, we proceeded
to wash ourselves and dress our burns as
well as we could. AS we had but little Oil
for the lantern we could not spare any for
this purpose, so we skinned one of the
swans and used the fat off its breast, which
proved an excellent substitute. Then we
repacked the canoe, and finally proceeded
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-04-06
River Mining.

A novel way of river mining is
now being carried on near the Carl
baldi Mining Company's property on
Stanislaus River, two miles below
Robinson's Ferry. The plan consists
Of scow twenty by sixty feet on
which is placed steam engine and
boiler of fifteen horse power with a
powerful suction pump attached. The
pump not only throws an immense
stream of water, but at the same time
draws the sand, rocks and gravel from
the bed of the river at the rate Of fifty
tons per hour The pump discharges
into the head of the scow, and drops
the material less the gold, some ten
feet away from the stern of the boat
Any large rocks that may obstruct the
free working of the pump are hustled
out of the way in short order by large
and powerful derricks. AS the Stan
islus River is noted for its heavy
gold deposits the results can hardly
fail to meet, if not greatly exceed, the
anticipations of the Chicago capital
lists who have it in charge. .-Calaveras
(Cal.) Prospect.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-04-06
A SAD SPECTACLE.
A Formerly Prosperous Merchant Has
Become Insane.

Joseph Connell, who formerly kept
wholesale liquor store in Bellevue,
was up before Probate JudgeLemmon,
this afternoon, to be examined before
jury as to his sanity. For over one
hour he was on the stand, testifying
to the most contradictory acts, yet
craftily erdeavoring to convince the
court and jury that, as he expressed
it, he was "all right" His efforts in
this direction only elected general,
though subdued, and promptly re-
pressed, laughter, most of the lockers
on feeling sorry indeed that a man
who. few years ago, was in easy
circumstances, blessed With devoted
wife and happy home, should have
experienced such sad change.
About four years ago Mr.. Cornell
began drinking to excess, and soon
got involved in debt. Bankruptcy
and ill-temper followed. His wife
chung to him for years, endeavorihg
to reform him; but her efforts were
only repaid with i'll. treatment and
abuse. Last fall she obtained a di-
vorce. Since then Mr.. Cornell has
wandered about Wood River towns
sleeping in alleys, woodsheds, ETC.,
until finally he was locked up on Il
charge Of insanity.
He will be sent to the Blackfoot
Asylum. .t.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-04-06
OUR RAILWAY FACILITIES.
They are Entirely Inadequate to Supply
Our Needs.-Thousands Of Tons Of
Freight Delayed on the Road.

They are Entirely Inadeq uate to Supply
Our Needs. Of Tons Of
Freight Delayed on the Road.
The accumulations of freight at the
various terminal and adjoining sta
tons along the Utah & Northern and
Oregon Short Line railways are stead
lily increasing. During last December,
January and February the severity of
the weather and the unusually heavy
fall OF snow supplied a ready excuse
for this; but during tho past month
the delayed freight along the lines
named has increased to such an ex.
tent that it is now exceedingly difficult
to move trains at all. Last SUNDAY,
at Glenn's Ferry, for instance, the
east-bound passenger, mail and en-
press train was delayed 20 minutes
while the freight cars were being got
out OF the way. All the switches and
side-tracks were covered, the cars be.
ing jammed as close together as pos
sible, and the tail end of one of the
trains had to be pushed on the main
track to perrnit the express train to
reach the depot. Nor is this an un-
usual occurrence, either.
The fact is that the railway business
on this side of the Rocky Mountains
is increasing SO rapidly that the rail-
way companies cannot procure the
rolling stock to handle it. The con
sequence is that vexatious DELAYS &C.
cur, the train crews are compelled to
crowd Il to two days work into one,
and the patrons of the roads are very
poorly served.
This will probably continue until
another road or two shall tap Xii, inter
mountain region, and give us another
outlet east and west.